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Exon skipping and dystrophin restoration in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy after systemic phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer treatment: an open-label, phase 2, dose-escalation study.

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The safety and biochemical efficacy presented show the potential of AVI-4658 to become a disease-modifying drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2011-08-13 and is currently open access. It has received 847 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Duchenne muscular dystrophy & Drisapersen.

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Pharmacological Aspects of Clinically Approved Gene Therapy Drugs and Products

TL;DR: Recently, 33 gene therapy drugs or products have been approved by the FDA or relevant authorities as mentioned in this paper , and dozens of novel gene therapy products are being examined for rare and common inherited diseases as well as cancers in gene therapy clinical trials.
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Cible intronique profonde pour la correction d'épissure sur le gène de l'amyotrophie spinale (sma)

TL;DR: La presente invention concerne des procedes et des compositions pour bloquer l'effet de la region d'epissure inhibitrice intronique de l'intron 7 du gene SMN2 as mentioned in this paper.
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Synthesis and fundamental studies of a photoresponsive oligonucleotide-upconverting nanoparticle covalent conjugate

TL;DR: The practical and green synthesis of the photocleavable phosphoramidite, combined with the fundamental understanding of the interactions between the oligonucleotide and nanoparticle during excitation paves the way for future in vitro applications for this type of system.
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Assessment of Genetic Mutations DMD, DYSF, EMD, LMNA, DUX4, DMPK, ZNF9, PABPN1 Genes Induction Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

TL;DR: In fact, of all people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy disease, 10 patients had a genetic mutation in the genes DMD, DYSF, EMD, LMNA, DUX4, DMPK, ZNF9, PABPN1 Duchennes muscular dy Strophy disease.
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Dystrophin: The protein product of the duchenne muscular dystrophy locus

TL;DR: The identification of the mdx mouse as an animal model for DMD has important implications with regard to the etiology of the lethal DMD phenotype, and the protein dystrophin is named because of its identification via the isolation of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy locus.
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Local Dystrophin Restoration with Antisense Oligonucleotide PRO051

TL;DR: Intramuscular injection of antisense oligonucleotide PRO051 induced dystrophin synthesis in four patients with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy who had suitable mutations, suggesting that further studies might be feasible.
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